| Birthday Mania | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot of in-game birthday wish | |
| Publisher(s) | Personal Games Company |
| Programmer(s) | Robert Tokar |
| Platform(s) | Atari 2600 |
| Release | 1984 |
| Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Birthday Mania is a 1984 shoot 'em up video game for the Atari 2600. Each copy was made to order and displayed an in-game birthday message personalized with a name. Birthday Mania was developed independently and only advertised in local newspapers. With about ten sales, it is one of the rarest and poorest-selling commercial video games.[1][2]
In the Atari 2600 library, the personalization aspect is unique to Birthday Mania except for very few custom copies of Spacechase and Raiders of the Lost Ark.[1]
- ^ a b Hall, Stefan (September 6, 2018). "Indie Games in the Atari Era". In Media Res. MediaCommons. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ Tweedie, Steven (June 27, 2014). "RANKED: The Rarest, Most Expensive Video Games In The World". Business Insider. Archived from the original on January 4, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
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